Billie Holiday discography

Billie Holiday discography

Portrait from Down Beat magazine, ca. February 1947
Releases
↙Studio albums	12
↙Live albums	3
↙Compilation albums	24
↙Box sets	5

The discography of Billie Holiday consists of twelve studio albums, three live albums, twenty-four compilations, and five box sets.

Billie Holiday recorded extensively for four labels: Columbia Records, issued on its subsidiary labels Brunswick Records, Vocalion Records, and OKeh Records, from 1933 through 1942; Commodore Records in 1939 and 1944; Decca Records from 1944 through 1950; briefly for Aladdin Records in 1951; Verve Records and on its earlier imprint Clef Records; from 1952 through 1957, then again for Columbia Records from 1957 to 1958 and finally for MGM Records in 1959. Many of Holiday's recordings appeared on 78 rpm records prior to the long-playing vinyl record era, and only Clef, Verve, and Columbia issued Holiday albums during her lifetime that were not compilations of previously released material. Many compilations have been issued since her death, as well as comprehensive box sets and live recordings.^[1][2]

Studio albums

Clef Records/Verve Records, 1952–1959

Columbia Records, 1958

MGM Records, 1959

Live albums

Posthumous

Compilation albums

Most of Billie Holidays' albums prior to 1952 were made up of material previously released as singles.

Box sets

Singles

^[7]

Compositions

• 1936: "Billie's Blues" a.k.a. "I Love My Man"
• 1939: "Our Love Is Different"
• 1939: "Long Gone Blues"
• 1939: "Fine and Mellow"
• 1939: "Everything Happens for the Best"
• 1940: "Tell Me More and More and Then Some"
• 1941: "God Bless the Child"
• 1944: "Don't Explain"
• 1949: "Somebody's on My Mind"
• 1949: "Now or Never"
• 1954: "Stormy Blues"
• 1956: "Lady Sings the Blues"

Never Recorded:

• 1939: "Lost at the Crossroads of Love"
• 1940: "Say I'm Yours Again"
• 1949: "Close Dem Eyes My Darlin'"
• 1952: "Please Don't Do It in Here"
• 1952: "You'd Do It Anyway"
• 1955: "Preacher Boy"
• 1957: "Left Alone"
• 1957: "Who Needs You (Baby)"

Notes

References

• Millar, Jack (1994). Fine and Mellow: A Discography of Billie Holiday. London: Billie Holiday Circle. ISBN 1-899161-00-7. 

Billie Holiday Albums Billie Holiday Sings/Solitude An Evening with Billie Holiday Billie Holiday Billie Holiday at JATP Stay with Me Music for Torching Velvet Mood Lady Sings the Blues Body and Soul Songs for Distingué Lovers Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport All or Nothing at All Lady in Satin Last Recordings The Essential Billie Holiday: Carnegie Hall Concert Recorded Live Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933–1944 Remixed and Reimagined Songs "Ain't Nobody's Business" "As Time Goes By" "Billie's Blues" "Blue Moon" "Body and Soul" "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?" "Don't Explain" "Easy Living" "Embraceable You" "Everything Happens for the Best" "Everything Happens to Me" "Fine and Mellow" "Gloomy Sunday" "God Bless the Child" "Good Morning Heartache" "I Cover the Waterfront" "I Loves You, Porgy" "I Thought About You" "I'll Be Seeing You" "I'll Get By" "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" "Just One of Those Things" "Lady Sings the Blues" "Left Alone" "Love for Sale" "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)" "Me, Myself, and I" "Miss Brown to You" "My Man" "Moonlight in Vermont" "Night and Day" "No More" "Now or Never" "Our Love Is Different" "P.S. I Love You" "Pennies from Heaven" "Please Don't Do It Here" "Preacher Boy" "Sophisticated Lady" "Stormy Blues" "Strange Fruit" "Summertime" "Too Marvelous for Words" "Trav'lin' Light" "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" "What Is This Thing Called Love?" "Who Needs You (Baby)" "Why Was I Born?" "Willow Weep for Me" "You Go to My Head" Videography The Emperor Jones Symphony in Black New Orleans Sugar Chile Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet The Sound of Jazz Related topics "Angel of Harlem" Lady Sings the Blues (book) Lady Sings the Blues (film) Lady Sings the Blues (soundtrack) Book:Billie Holiday